Marks Hinton’s “Historic Houston Streets: The Stories Behind the Names” explains the origins of many area streets. The 235-page book is the result of more than six years of research tracking down how …

Owen Johnson : Post fileLyons at Jensen, October 1956 Personal photoThe intersection today. For a while, I wondered if I photographed the right intersection. I’m still not 100 percent sure; the change …

Chronicle fileWreck at Memorial, near Shepherd, January 1960. W.B. Pearson, of the 6600 block of Letein, probably didn’t see the humor connected to this Great Southern Life Insurance billboard on this …